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Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed materials, and tape cassettes assembled by Tom Clark in writing his WRITER: A LIFE OF JACK KEROUAC. There is correspondence from friends and fellow writers of Kerouac, printed materials about Kerouac and The Jack Kerouac Conference, 1982, at the Naropa Institute (Boulder, Colorado), and five drafts of Clark's book manuscript. Among the correspondents are Carolyn Cassady, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Allen Ginsberg.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and articles from Prescott's career as a book reviewer. Many of the reviews were published in Women's Wear Daily, Look Magazine, Newsweek, and the New York Times. Often placed in between pages of the scrapbooks are letters from the authors of the books Prescott reviewed. In addition, the scrapbooks hold personal correspondence, unpublished drafts, speeches, poems, articles about his career, and related materials. There are also scrapbooks with correspondence, reviews, and other clippings about Prescott's books: A World of Our Own, The Child Saved, A Darkening Green, Soundings, Never in Doubt, and The Norton Book of Short Stories (editor).